Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferencesand Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, September24-28, 2005, Long Beach, California. Printed version of collectionof full-length, peer-reviewed papers presented on the broad subjectof mechanisms and robotics. Collection is is separated into twoparts. Part A concentrates on the following topics: CompliantMechanisms; Dynamics of Machines; Mechanism Synthesis, Components,and Applications; Medical Devices and Their Applications inRehabilitation, Surgery; Micro and Nano-Scale ElectromechanicalSystems (MEMS, NEMS). Part B concentrates on the following topics:Robotics: Applications; Robotics: Theory; Theoretical andComputational Kinematics.